Analysis of Hayeswater
Matthew Arnold 1822 (Laleham) – 1888 (Liverpool)
A region desolate and wild.
Black, chafing water: and afloat,
And lonely as a truant child
In a waste wood, a single boat:
No mast, no sails are set thereon;
It moves, but never moveth on:
And welters like a human thing
Amid the wild waves weltering.
Behind, a buried vale doth sleep,
Far down the torrent cleaves its way:
In front the dumb rock rises steep,
A fretted wall of blue and grey;
Of shooting cliff and crumbled stone
With many a wild weed overgrown:
All else, black water: and afloat,
One rood from shore, that single boat.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01010001 11010001 01010101 00110101 11111101 1111011 0110101 010111 01010111 11010111 01011101 01011101 11010101 11001101 11110001 11111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 528 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 208 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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